exhibition
Alison Nguyen, 2022, single-channel video, color, stereo sound, scrim panels, acrylics rods, 3 minute loop
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Alison Nguyen, Cu, silkscreen on paper, 18” x 24”, 2022
Text by Matthew Nguyen
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Alison Nguyen, are you aware that you are being hypnotized, HD video, stereo sound, 10”w monitor, 1 minute loop, 2022
“Lightwork x Urban Video Project presents No Emoji for Ennui, a group exhibition featuring the work of filmmakers Lana Z Caplan, Ross Meckfessel, Alison Nguyen, and Matt Whitman. The exhibition explores the difficult-to-define emotional tenor of our time—one that often leaves us overstimulated and underwhelmed at the same time it demands endless positivity.
The installation will be on view from January 27 thru March 26, 2022, at UVP’s outdoor projection site on the north facade of the @eversonmuseum Thursday through Saturday, from dusk until 11 p.m.”
Hartnett Gallery is pleased to present Alison Nguyen’s i broke my mind at the link in my bio in a virtual exhibition featuring a new video work and screenings of her moving image work from 2017 to the present full. The exhibition will also include a series of public conversations and an online lecture-performance by Nguyen.
Press release
Schedule of events and screenings
Screening Room
Photo Credit: Dario Lasagni
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 4–7 PM
The International Studio & Curatorial Program announces the opening of The Earth Is Blue Like an Orange, a group exhibition featuring the work of eight artists in residence in ISCP’s Ground Floor Program.
Reserve your free timed ticket here. Tickets are required.
The Earth Is Blue Like an Orange, a title derived from poetry by French surrealist Paul Éluard (1895-1952), evokes the collective memory of 2020 through eight artists’ differing viewpoints. In an unparalleled period characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a heightened collective awareness of widespread racial injustice, the individual works reflect a range of concepts and emotions. Largely comprised of newly created works, the exhibition presents Alison Nguyen’s speculative fiction telling the story of a simulacral subaltern who has been conceived by an algorithm and raised in isolation by the Internet; a cyanotype work by Bundith Phunsombatlert addressing the subject of border crossings, using national flags; Carlos Franco’s compilation of media landscapes without specific geolocation, showing divergent populations at odds with their habitats; an ongoing painting by Wieteke Heldens that catalogues colors based on personal experience; Svetlana Bailey’s visual representation of what are now everyday questions about human connection (e.g., how do we love without touch?); an account of a woman’s personal story mirroring communal experiences of suffering, violence, and memory in Civan Özkanoğlu’s installation project; Habby Osk’s sculpture highlighting the precarity between stability and tension; and a cinematic installation by Moko Fukuyama in which framing, illumination and other variables serve as metaphors alluding to the many responsibilities of the storyteller.
These artists in residence are all part of a program that offers subsidized workspace and professional development for New York City-based artists. Launched in 2015, Ground Floor at ISCP takes place on the first floor of the institution, in tandem with ISCP’s International Residency program, forming an integral part of a dynamic community of artists and curators from all over the world.
Artists in the exhibition: Svetlana Bailey, Carlos Franco, Moko Fukuyama, Wieteke Heldens, Alison Nguyen, Habby Osk, Civan Özkanoğlu, and Bundith Phunsombatlert.
The number of visitors to ISCP galleries will be limited, with timed viewing. Visitor protocols are in the Visit section of the website here.
The Earth Is Blue Like an Orange is organized by Alexandra Sloan Friedman, Programs Associate, ISCP.
I’m excited to announce that I am the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art COVID-19 Relief Grant.This temporary fund meets the needs of experimental artists who have been impacted by the economic fallout from postponed or canceled performances and exhibitions.
In 1962 Jasper Johns, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and other painters and sculptors came together to help Merce Cunningham and his dance company finance a proposed season on Broadway by arranging for a sale of their artworks. Their fund-raising efforts were so successful that there was money to spare, and when they asked Cunningham what he thought they should do with it, he replied, “We're all in the same boat--why don't you give it to other performing artists?"
Since its inception in 1963, the mission of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations. FCA depends on artists to fund its programs; to date, over 1,000 artists have contributed paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, performances, and videos to help fund grant programs that directly support individual artists working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. Thus, FCA remains the only institution of its kind: created and sustained by artists to benefit artists.
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak my solo exhibition at school scheduled to open May 3rd, 2020 will be postponed until further notice. Stayed tuned for updated dates.
‘Automate Me’ is an event bringing together the works by international artists that consider automation in all its forms. The evening is part of Running Dog’s even series tackling automation, ecological collapse, political unrest, and mediated fake news. I will be screening a work-in-progress cut of my latest video Andra8 (my favorite software is being here). The event takes place Mar. 8 from 6 – 8 PM at Jane Foss Russell Plaza in Sydney.
As part of my participation in the exhibition ‘Beyond the Visible’ I will be giving an artist talk alongside photographer and video artists Kanthy Peng. 630 Flushing Ave. Brooklyn, NY 6:30 PM)
‘Beyond the Visible’ is a group exhibition featuring works by Cole Lu, Alison Nguyen, Catalina Ouyang, and Kanthy Peng and curated by Jennifer (Chia-ling) Ho and Min Sun Jeon. The exhibition seeks to bring together works that uncover the particularities of hidden social and technological infrastructures to reorient our understanding of the visible in a world heavily mediated by the images, materials, and languages we perceive and speak.
I will be showing a new video installation of my 2019 video work every dog has its day. The Exhibition will run from Feb. 7 – Feb. 23 at the Ground Floor Gallery Space, Pfizer Building (630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206).
‘Collection of Recollection’ is a group exhibition revolving around works that look back on past events to track down their traces. Featuring both domestic and international artists, regardless of nationalities, genders and ages, the exhibition “collects” past events via works with themes and topics based on the history of a specific place or personal experience of each artist.
I am showing my 2017 video work you can’t plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens. The exhibition will run from Feb. 7 – Feb. 13 at Yotsuya Unconfirmed Studio (4-13-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo To, 160-0004, Japan).
I will be showing a single-channel version of my 2017-2018 video work Dessert-Disaster at the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (CADAF) in Miami. The fair takes place from Dec. 5 – Dec. 8.
October 8th - December 6th. 2019
Ungrounded is a group exhibition featuring the work of the seven artists in residence in ISCP’s Ground Floor Program. The exhibition considers—from many vantage points—today’s political, social, and ecological urgencies. Works include a compilation of words in need of safeguarding painted by Danilo Correale; Simone Couto’s multimedia presentation of immigrant stories spanning 150 years in 2 x 2; Furen Dai’s two-dimensional work examining global census forms; Mariajosé Fernández-Plenge’s photographic exploration of the fine line between mental illness and compulsive habits in Small Obsessions; Jude Griebel’s latest figurative sculpture highlighting dystopic paranoia; Joshua Liebowitz’ Proof Burdens – No1, an ongoing multimedia project investigating grievance in the United States; and Alison Nguyen’s every dog has its day, a video made with consumer-produced media highlighting the connections between religion, self, and technology.
Artists in the exhibition: Danilo Correale, Simone Couto, Furen Dai, Mariajosé Fernandez-Plenge, Jude Griebel, Joshua Liebowitz, and Alison Nguyen.
Ungrounded is organized by Alexandra Friedman, Programs Associate, ISCP.
More info:
https://iscp-nyc.org/event/ungrounded
Opening May 24, 2019
AC Gallery
798 Arts District
Beijing, China